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SCREEN. No.,267,007.`h Patented Nov. 7, 1882.

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UNtTEnY STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ARTHUR LOTT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofrLetters Patent No. 267,007', dated November '7, 1882.

Application filed February 18. 189i?. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ARTHUR LOTT, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Screen, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

Figure 1 is a plan view ot' my invention, showing the wings extended. Fig. 2 is the same, the wings being closed and the covering for the sidel of the body of the screen rcmoved, thus showing the internal construction of the device. Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2 on the line x x.

Similar letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to folding screens, usually used as tire-screens, and is as follows:

A AAAis a wooden frame constituting the body of the screen.

B B are the feet upon which the screen rests. The feet may he provided with.casters,.if desired.

O O O is a wooden frame for the wings, which are made in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The base and perpendicular sides are preferably at substantially right angles to each other, and the other side corresponding to the hypotenuse is made curving, orsubstantially of the outline of a quarter-circle.

D D are two strips of wood as thick as the thickness of the wing-frames C, and of suitable width to afford the needful strength and support. These strips of wood are hinged to that side of the wing-frame which constitutes the perpendicular side thereof,when the wings are extended, by two-way hinges i i, one near the top andthe other near the bottom. These strips D are pivoted at one end to the frame A by pins E, and at the other end there is formed on them, or attached to them, a stop, z" i', which rests againstasuitably-located portion of the frame Awhen the wings are extended, so that they cannot swing too farout. These strips D should preferably come, when the wings are extended, about tiush with the side of the frame A; but the hinges extend somewhat beyond the frame, so that the wings may have the necessary or desirable swinging Vfer not to use wood for 4this facing, as itis lia ble to warp, shrink, and crack with the heat of the fire. It may be used, however.

G (shown best in Fig. 3)is a dividing-partition, preferably of some sheet metal, divid-l ing the frame,- A in its longitudinal plane into two substant.ially-equal chambers. This par tition may be of wood or any other suitable material, and it may, if desired, be omitted, as it is not essential to the successful working of my invention. Y

One of the wings, as seen in Fig. 8, swings through a slot made for it in the side upright of the frame Aand into the frame on one side of this dividing-partition, and the other wing swings through a like slot in the opposite upright and on the other side ofthe partition.

The facing F on the frame A is placed on both sides of the partition and outside ot the wings. Thus they, when closed, are each incased between the facing on the outside and the partition on the inside. The outer edge, O', of the frame of the wings, when closed, may be made somewhat broader than the slot through the side uprights of the frame A, through which they work, and thus when the wings are closed the slot will be concealed. catch or bolt (shown at 7a 7:, Figs. 1 and 2) 1s placed near the top of the slot in the side uprightsof the frame A, which engage in suitable recesses or teeth on the'circular edge of the wings, (shown at l l, Fig. 1,) and thus the wings can be held at any desired degree of projection.

.frame A. rlhese bars, however, may be dispensed with, especially if the facing be of some material, like wood or sheet metal, not easily damaged by the win gs.

2 seinem' Instead of the wings being of the form l stated,they maybe square in sbape,and simply slide in and out of the frame through the slots in the side uprights and on opposite sides of the partition, and, if desired, small wheels may be used, or rollers, on the lower bar of the frame A, or on the under edge ot' the Wings, to enable them to be moved in and ont with greater ease.

The frames for the wings, as well as for the body of the screen, maybe made all ot' metal, if preferred, or either the Wing-frames or the frame ot' the body may be of metal.

It is not essential that the Wings should be so large relative to the body of the sereen that they shall, when closed, overlap or pass by each other, for they may be ot but halt' the Width of the body of the screen, or less, and

thus come edge to edge when folded. It" so made, there is no occasion for the partition G. I do not limit myself to the specitie shape of the wings, (either tan-shaped or square,) or of the frame A, as set forth, for they may be of The wingsespeeially may be made ot' any desired outline for the purpose ot' ornamentation.

Having thus described my invention, I claimr[he combination of the frame A, the wings F, and the strips D, the Wings F being hinged f to the strips D, and the strips D engaging with the sides of the frame A, substantially as and For the purposes set forth.

ARTE UR LOTT.

Witnesses:

PHILLIPS ABBOTT, BERN. T. VETTERLEIN. 

